Sentence examples for repressive hand from inspiring English sources

When their own empire collapsed, the Arabs spent four centuries under the repressive hand of the Ottomans.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt recently announced a series of minor changes lightening the government's repressive hand, including abolishing the special state security courts for ordinary crimes.

Mr. Gauck knew even more directly the repressive hand of the Communist regime, which sent his father to hard labor for four years.

The failure of international leadership has become increasingly intolerable, especially in an age when terrorism and repressive regimes go hand in hand.

Describing the attacks on him after his Iraq visit, Penn wrote that he "experienced first hand the repressive condition of public debate in our country...I was beginning to feel the price paid by a citizen exercising a position of dissent".

In an interview with the Financial Times, the company's chief executive Larry Page seemed resigned to the need to bow to the ruling from Europe's highest court, while keen to warn that it could threaten the next generation of internet start-ups and strengthen the hand of repressive governments.

On the other hand, the repressive modification H3K27me3 had a negative coefficient suggesting that p63 is being excluded from genomic sites with this histone modification.

On the other hand, these repressive marks were found absent from the sensor transgene in the ovaries, whereas an H3K9 acetylation similar to tGgDId was observed (Fig.  4A′ E′).

On the other hand, a repressive function for PmCdx on PmLox transcription in the posterior larval intestine is likely occurring in the sea star, as it happens in the sea urchin and apparently in the mouse: a similar dynamic has been described in Cdx2 mouse null mutants where ectopic expression of Pdx1 was found in the intestine [ 56].

Transcriptional repression, on the other hand, utilizes repression domains [ 55, 56] and is typically achieved by variants of a 45-aa segment from Krüppel-associated boxes (KRAB) [ 55] or repressive epigenomic modifications [ 57, 58].

Other writers also suffer at the hands of repressive regimes and religious zealots.